Question

3. Now imagine that you are a nurse caring for a patient who has the disease or health issue you identified in the previous question. Do you think you need all 4 types of knowledge in order to be able to take good care of the patient? If so, why? a. b. If not, which types of knowledge do you feel are most important to have, an why?

Answer 1

a) The four types of knowledge are personal knowing, emperical knowing, ethics knowing and aesthetics knowing. All the four types of knowing are important inproviding care to patient.

Personal knowing helps to learn about self and the experiences. Learning from experiences help build good relation with patient and provide quality care.

Emperical knowing makes the use of professional knowledge, scientific and research objectives to provide care to patient.

Ethics help to maintain a moral code of conduct.

Aesthetic knowledge is combination of all four knowledge and hwlps provide better services and care to patient.

b) The most important knowledge to have are emperical knowing and ethics knowing. Emperical knowing helps nurses to think professionally and use their scientific knowledge to treat, diagnose and prevent the diseases.

Ethics knowing is very important to maintain good relations with the patient and respect their dignity, confidentiality and privacy